Speaker
Enrico Barausse
Description
I will review how non-linearities can allow for screening solar-system
scales from non-tensorial gravitational polarizations, focusing on the
case of scalar-tensor theories with derivative self-interactions
(K-essence). I will then present fully relativistic simulations in
these theories in 1+1 dimensions (stellar oscillations and collapse)
and 3+1 dimensions (binary neutron stars), showing how to avoid
breakdowns of the Cauchy problem that have affected similar attempts
in the past. I will show that screening tends to suppress the
(subdominant) dipole scalar emission in binary neutron star systems,
but that it fails to quench monopole scalar emission in gravitational
collapse, and quadrupole scalar emission in binaries
Primary author
Enrico Barausse
